Point And Shoot My wife and I had just walked back to our cabin at the Hui when I saw the gecko on the window. It was perched on the outside of the window glass with a bug over half its size in its mouth. Having tried numerous times to get a good shot of [...]
What is the story? Many people ask me how many good photographs I get when I go out shooting. Back in the film days this question was framed ‘Jonathan, how many good photos do you get per roll of 36 images?’ Now, with the 36 image roll of film irrelevant, they simply reframe the question to [...]
Perhaps it is because I am the youngest sibling in my family, or perhaps it was a habit developed later in life – but I must confess that I like to compete and I like to win. I thrive under pressure. It clarifies my mind better than any cup of coffee could by eliminating the [...]
Photographing on the west end of Molokai I was astonished to see bodyboarders riding a wave that I have never seen anybody surf before. Yet there the bodyboarders were charging a gnarly right that threatened to spit them onto a rocky lava shelf. Risking life and limb they took off with great smiles of glee [...]
Day 1 of See The Light on Molokai, Hawaii. Participants arrive from as far away as Canada. Molokai greets them with a spectacular sunset and show of stars. Below is the Veitchi palm off the front porch of my cabin at the Hui Hoolana.
Favorite quote from the day: I think we are healing the planet when we appreciate beauty. - Rikki Cooke
Stunning sunrise at Mo`omomi nature preserve this morning. Is it possible to be so full of beauty that you don’t know what to do with it? Yes. Here. Now.
I walked to the main lodge this morning to the sounds of aloha floating across the Hui’s lawn. Bronwyn and hui staff were sitting on the punee, ukelele’s in hand, performing Pule o’o Moloka’i (Prayer for Molokai), a hauntingly beautiful song. Posted here for you to share the aloha.
Favorite quote from the day: Trying to photograph is loving. It’s a spontaneous thing and the moment effort starts going into it then all of a sudden your starting to get shackled. Your shackled with your mind, your history, your should’s – ‘I can do it better’, and your judgements. So the trying part is [...]
I once was filled with sons of men who raised their arms to God in praise Until brushfire kissed my walls and then set my roof ablaze My congregation now consists of souls less apt to sing but whisper softly with their leaves and for companions birds they bring My architect must have known some [...]
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